Common Quote by Russell Jacoby

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and…

— Marvin Minsky

“Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But common sense is deceptive precisely because it is based on common experience.”

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

— Joseph Joubert

The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst…

— Alfred Adler

“As the sociologist Ann Swidler has observed, “common sense”is really just deeply embedded culture: “the set of assumptions so unselfconscious as to seem a…

— Thomas E. Ricks

“Common Sense Is Not Common”

— Judy Sheindlin

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

— Anonymous

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

— Tryon Edwards

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

— Rene Descartes